(A slightly off-topic or at least tangential post, but I thought I'd share this one.)
Did anyone catch tonight's new episode of _The X-Files_ (9-13, the 6th to last)? I don't watch it regularly any more, but this time the title, IMPROBABLE, caught my eye: http://www.thex-files.com/episodes/season9/9x13.html As with the Spielberg/Kubrick film _AI_, the ways in which themes were presented seemed a bit clich�. On the other hand, it's rare enough to have causality, uncertainty, skewness, pattern recognition, (non)determinism, and predestination touched upon in a single TV show. Perhaps Burt Reynolds (or rather, Chris Carter) should be the next UAI banquet speaker? :-) -Bill Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. (Lucky is one who has been able to understand causality.) - Virgil, Georgics ii.490 -- ======================================================= William H. Hsu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of CIS, Kansas State University Director, Lab for Knowledge Discovery in Databases [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kddresearch.org ICQ: 28651394 =======================================================
